"I learned so much from Brian May and [drummer] Roger Taylor, sharing the stage with them and understanding the legacy that they left behind,” Lambert told THR at the time. “It inspired me. It got me psyched about why I do this in the first place."

In other Lambert news, the season-eight favorite headlined Pittsburgh’s “Pride in the Street” event on Saturday, where he treated the crowd to a cover of the Queen B-side “Dragon Attack.”